>>Isn't American American the politically rectified term?
In her case, perhaps- unless you're asserting that the only actual (US) "Americans" are the so-called Red Indians already in residence when the European illegal immigrants started turning up? ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
